please stop, put down whatever you're doing, quit worrying about your to-do list, turn off the music or tv, put the cell phone down, silence your mind & mouth...and put your hand over your heart.
take a moment and listen.
feel your heartbeat.
take a moment and try to make your heart stop beating. you can't do it. you can't tell your heart to stop beating. you cannot command your blood to flow.
there's a reason your heart is still beating right now. jesus woke you up again this morning for a reason, a cause... not just to be a task-doer. not just to hang out and have fun. not just to work at something you don't believe in. not to climb the ladder of success. not just to live a routine life. not to just be like everybody else. not just to live an ordinary life.
what was an ordinary day in the life of jesus? raising the dead. healing the sick. opening the eyes of the blind. walking on water. forgiving the lost. calming stormy waters.
your heart is still beating this moment because jesus wants to take your ordinary day and turn it in to his kind of an ordinary day.
...your heart is beating. live.
Monday, February 28, 2005
burnt.
this weekend was great. and i don't really want to cheapen the experience by tryin to explaining it on here. anyways, it wasn't really about me goin into this weekend, it was about students, but i had to get something from it. i just feel like i am on the stage all the time, leading, doin altar stuff, i never have the chance on a wednesday night or a weekend like this...to get alone with God, or have others pray with me...or get a chance to pray for people. anyways, so i took advantage of Saturday night altar time, cause i didn't have to do music. God really opened my eyes to some things...and i just feel he is burning things out of me. the dross, if you will. only to get to where He wants me to be in my walk with Him. i thought that if i had certain things in my life, i, then, wouldn't have to deal with other things, that i used to deal with, but with these things in my life now, i still have to deal with stuff from my past and my own thoughts. it's goin to be work. and i left this retreat feeling good, feeling somewhat refreshed(other than the lack of sleep) but knowing the next, however long, will be probably a tough time, but rewarding all at the same time. knowing God will never leave, nor forsake me. always be there, when others can't. always being the faithful Friend is has been, is, and will continue to be, whether i see it or not at times. ok well enjoy the pictures. good times over all. it was good to play music this weekend and not being restricted at all, not caring, really, about anything else, but just worshiping God through the song of my heart, not just my mouth....to sing with all my might and my voice right now is messed up because of it, but it's all good. anyways, that's all i'm saying for now. i'm ready to go into battle.
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